videos

So . . . I sort of like this video blogging thing (vlogging, I believe, is the actual term). After I get beyond the fact that I look like a doofus, it’s sort of fun to experiment with the medium. I might do it more in 2017, or I might not. We’ll…

When we decided it was time to put an addition on our home (my “line in the sand”), my husband called his friend who works in construction. He couldn’t do it, he told us, but he knew who could. He gave my husband a name and number.
“No web…

I’ll never forget watching myself on camera in Sister Cecelia’s freshman speech class. I was 14, awkward as hell, and truly awful at communicating a message. As part of our “training,” she recorded each of us giving a speech. Standing in front of…

Have you noticed how much content there is in the world?
Here’s what I think: more of it should be extraordinary.
Not all of it
Some content can be ordinary. Some can simply do the minimum of what content needs to do. A solid “C”…

Today, let’s play multiple choice. Which do you think is easier to do?
THIS . . .
. . . OR THIS?
The second one—doing the splits—is far easier for me than the first, where I’m self-consciously trying to be fun! I know this…